I would agree to that, and I think Mr. Savage set up a false dichotomy. I don't think there can be any backtracking on the research front, especially when we're talking technology transfer in the four primary areas in Canada that are regarded as particularly important.
But I think with reference to the main mission of universities, which is to educate--mine has a dual-pronged one, to do research as well as educate broadly--lines are blurred. If we don't have the funds to do that primary educational responsibility, we won't even have the people to do the research. I really do think you've put it properly.
As to what is done within that in terms of targeted sectors and so forth, there are any number of ways of doing that, but I do think that the research funding has to, at the minimum, be maintained, but then there have to be clear lines of responsibility in terms of institutions' missions to educate.